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The head of one of the city’s unions who has been charged with battery over an October incident was accused in April of bullying another man and even threatening to have him thrown out of his public housing unit.

Benito Lujan, 32, who works for the city’s housing department, wasn’t charged or disciplined over the April incident.

A 14-year-old Memorial Middle School student was struck by a white SUV on Tuesday morning at the intersection of Old National and Legion while going to school.

According to the police accident report, the 41-year-old female driver of the SUV had just dropped off her daughter at the school and did not see the teenage boy crossing the crosswalk due to poor visibility caused by sun glare.

Las Vegas Police Chief Christian Montaño said EMS responded to the accident, but the juvenile’s injuries appeared to be minor.

Cpl. Chester Nez, the last of the original 29 World War II Navajo Code Talkers, will speak at 2 p.m. Saturday at the historic Plaza Hotel.

The presentation will be in the ballroom.

Judith Avila, the author of Nez’ memoir, Code Talker, is also part of the presentation. The bestselling Code Talker is the only memoir by one of the original 29 Code Talkers. Nez is the only surviving member.

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama prodded Congress to raise wages and secure the social safety net as he issued an overarching appeal Wednesday to correct economic inequalities that he said make it harder for a child to escape poverty.

“That should offend all of us,” he declared. “We are a better country than this.”

An Albuquerque man will serve three years of probation after pleading guilty this week to charges related to a homemade bomb that destroyed a portable toilet at Conchas Lake and another device found unexploded in Santa Rosa’s Blue Hole.

Friday, Dec. 6 — The Rev. Robert G. Plagge of Council Bluffs, Iowa, will occupy the pulpit of the First United Presbyterian Church Sunday, Dec. 8. The Rev. and Mrs. Plagge are in the community this week visiting with various members and getting acquainted with the congregation. He is a candidate for the vacancy in this parish and hopes to meet all the congregation at some time during the week.